For fans of&nbsp;American Housewife&nbsp;and the work of Lily King, a provocative, razor-sharp, and riotously entertaining story collection exploring the dark side of family and femininity. CONTAINS "COMORBIDITIES," WINNER OF THE BBC SHORT STORY PRIZE In my life, I had always been a good woman; controlling what it was that I wanted. But recently, I had started to notice my bad energy, and I began to follow it, wondering where it would take me . . . A woman has an unexpected outburst at a corporate therapy session for working mothers. A couple find some long-overdue time to rekindle their relationship and make an ill-advised home movie. A pregnant film director plots revenge on the actress who betrayed her. An ex-wife deliberately causes conflict at her ex-husband's wedding. This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things&nbsp;illuminates the lives of malicious, subversive, and untamed women. Exploring failed sisterhood, dubious parenting, and the dark side of modern love, this powerful and funny collection exposes how society wants women to behave, and shows what happens when they refuse.

This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: A provocative, darkly funny collection of subversive short stories exploring modern femininity and family

Literature & Fiction

Wood, Naomi

United States

Mariner Books

The Paris Wife was only the beginning of the story . . . A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice A Richard &amp; Judy UK Pick Paula McLain’s New York Times–bestselling novel piqued readers’ interest about Ernest Hemingway’s romantic life. But Hadley was only one of four women married, in turn, to the legendary writer. Just as T.C. Boyle’s bestseller The Women completed the picture begun by Nancy Horan’s Loving Frank, Naomi Wood’s Mrs. Hemingway tells the story of how it was to love, and be loved by, the most famous and dashing writer of his generation. Hadley, Pauline, Martha and Mary: each Mrs. Hemingway thought their love would last forever; each one was wrong. Told in four parts and based on real love letters and telegrams, Mrs. Hemingway reveals the explosive love triangles that wrecked each of Hemingway's marriages. Spanning 1920s bohemian Paris through 1960s Cold War America, populated with members of the fabled "Lost Generation," Mrs. Heminway is a riveting tale of passion, love, and heartbreak.

Mrs. Hemingway: A Novel

Penguin Publishing Group

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. The Paris Wife was only the beginning of the story . . . Paula McLain's New York Times –bestselling novel piqued readers' interest about Ernest Hemingway's romantic life. But Hadley was only one of four women married, in turn, to the legendary writer. Just as T.C. Boyle's bestseller The Women completed the picture begun by Nancy Horan's Loving Frank , Naomi Wood's Mrs. Hemingway tells the story of how it was to love, and be loved by, the most famous and dashing writer of his generation. As each wife struggles with his mistress for Ernest's heart, and a place in his bed, each marriage slips from tenderness to treachery. Each Mrs. Hemingway thought it would last forever. Each one was wrong. Told in four parts and populated with members of the fabled ""Lost Generation""—including Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, and F. Scott Fitzgerald— Mrs. Hemingway interweaves the love letters, diaries, and telegrams of four very different women into one spellbinding tale.

Mrs. Hemingway (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

Turtleback

"The Paris Wife" was only the beginning of the story . . . Paula McLain's "New York Times"-bestselling novel piqued readers' interest about Ernest Hemingway's romantic life. But Hadley was only one of four women married, in turn, to the legendary writer. Just as T.C. Boyle's bestseller "The""Women" completed the picture begun by Nancy Horan's "Loving Frank," Naomi Wood's "Mrs. Hemingway "tells the story of how it was to love, and be loved by, the most famous and dashing writer of his generation. Hadley, Pauline, Martha and Mary: each Mrs. Hemingway thought their love would last forever; each one was wrong. Told in four parts and based on real love letters and telegrams, "Mrs. Hemingway "reveals the explosive love triangles that wrecked each of Hemingway's marriages. Spanning 1920s bohemian Paris through 1960s Cold War America, populated with members of the fabled "Lost Generation," "Mrs. Heminway "is a riveting tale of passion, love, and heartbreak.

Mrs. Hemingway

Thorndike Press

'Vibrant and evocative' Stylist Imagine an alternative England, where the Church controls the country and non-believers have been exiled to a remote island. On the Island, a fierce group of boys patrols the community, searching for signs of faith and punishing any believers. When a new girl appears, arriving from the mainland to search for her long-lost mother, the gang is split: one boy falls in love with her, another seeks violent revenge. The struggle between them will change everything. 'The comforts of faith, the terrors of extremism, the loneliness of not believing anything at all: these are the aggressively modern tensions that pierce Wood's novel ...richly conceived' Metro 'A gripping, well-crafted tale ...impressive' Observer

The Godless Boys

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Picador

In the dazzling summer of 1926, Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley travel from their home in Paris to a villa in the south of France. They swim, play bridge, drink gin, have parties - and everywhere they go they are accompanied by the glamorous, irrepressible Fife. She is Ernest's lover. Hadley is the first Mrs Hemingway, but neither she nor Fife will be the last. Over the ensuing decades, Ernest's literary career will blaze a trail but threaten to overpower him, and his marriages will be ignited by desire and deceit. Four extraordinary women will learn what it means to love the most famous writer of his generation. Each will see him as no other has before and be forced to ask herself how far she would go to remain his wife...

Blackstone Audiobooks

The Hiding Game

Pan/Macmillan

The Hiding Game is an intoxicating story of love and betrayal, set in the Bauhaus art school. Heady, gripping and unforgettable, Naomi Wood's third novel explores the perils of secrecy in a changing and increasingly dangerous world.In Roaring Twenties Germany, Paul, Charlotte and Walter meet at the Bauhaus art school. The trio form a close-knit group, in which passions and rivalries collide. But when Walter is betrayed, he makes a terrible mistake a secret he will keep from Paul and Charlottefor as long as he can.As political tensions escalate and the Nazis gain power, Walters secret hidden in notebooks, paintings and blueprints ultimately threatens the very lives of his friends, with devastating consequences.Shortlisted for The Historical Writers' Association Gold Crown Award.Longlisted for The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction.

Yes, God!

Wood, Shelley

Kluth, Nichole

Bilbrey, Carol Anne

Goldman, Danna

Religion & Spirituality

Independently published

Mrs Hemingway

Literary

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